Check this out: Inspired by the work of Significant Objects … and how they got that way, Grade 11 students (ELA 20-1) from Wm. E. Hay High School are embarking upon a journey of their own to see where it … Continue reading
The Brooklyn-based Proteus Gowanus gallery recently announced an exhibition on “The Migration of Objects.” Continue reading
Bruce Sterling (@bruces) 9/22/11 12:40 PM http://t.co/1vFi6Ev *People are always claiming they’ll archive a dead creative website, but these guys actually did it.
Readers, as we mentioned in passing recently, this site is going to be quiet for a while, as the Significant Objects team holes up in its secret laboratory facilities to make the final tweaks and arrangements leading up to the … Continue reading
Readers, as you know, the initial Significant Objects experiment hewed to the strict scientific standards necessary to demonstrate our initial hypothesis: that narrative, even 100% invented narrative, can add measurable value to formerly valueless things. When our project unexpectedly turned … Continue reading
Houston high school library throws out books, makes way for coffee and couches. http://tumblr.com/xr4yw2fbc # Rosemary Williams documents everything she owns, in "Belongings." http://tumblr.com/xr4yw2dkd # "Tongue" bookmark: http://tumblr.com/xr4yvjvdq # Claim: "Amazon's amateur book-reviewing becomes vicious free-for-all." http://tumblr.com/xr4yv6do2 # A book … Continue reading
IN THIS UPDATE: Ben Greenman, Ben Katchor, J. Robert Lennon, Matthew Sharpe. 1) Ben Greenman published a new collection, Celebrity Chekhov (Harper Perennial), which takes the short fiction of Anton Chekhov, removes the characters, and inserts contemporary celebrities. It has … Continue reading
BoingBoing finds "delightful" science fiction story lurking in a review of $6800 speaker cable http://t.co/6oF85GN # Intel commissions futuristic stories for internal planning; "unique literary project" – Boing Boing http://t.co/M8lllTY # Photographer Hong Hao's "My Things" project, arranging 20 years … Continue reading
IN THIS UPDATE: Jason Grote, Terese Svoboda, Teddy Blanks. 1) Jason Grote will be presenting a lecture based on his Hilobrow series of Silver Age comic book double-entendres at Adult Ed in Union Hall in Brooklyn on December 7. View … Continue reading
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IN THIS UPDATE: Jenny Davidson, Alissa Nutting, David Abrams. 1) Jenny Davidson‘s novel Invisible Things was released yesterday. It is the sequel to The Explosionist. *** 2) Alissa Nutting‘s Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls was picked by Steve Almond … Continue reading
IN THIS UPDATE: Joanne McNeil, Robert Lopez. 1) Joanne McNeil recently wrote a catalog essay for the New Museum exhibition “Free.” Her essay “Overfutured” looks at Jon Rafman’s “9 Eyes of Google Street View” and other technology-inspired art in the … Continue reading
'The Novelist's Lexicon': 77 writers each choose 1 word that "creates a window their work." http://lat.ms/b0LWfe # Art project goal: "Object That Remains A Dream" (Pics) – @PSFK http://t.co/V0M1bkL # DailyLit, a service that let’s you read books by email … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Bruce Sterling, Todd Levin, Susannah Breslin, Ben Greenman, Marisa Silver. This is the twentieth installment in a series of twenty posts announcing — in no particular order — which 100 stories will be collected in the Significant … Continue reading
IN THIS UPDATE: Colleen Werthmann, Josh Kramer, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer. 1) Colleen Werthmann is currently appearing in a play by The Civilians, an investigative theater company, at the Irondale Center in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. IN THE FOOTPRINT, a new play with … Continue reading
IN THIS UPDATE: Dara Horn, Curtis Sittenfeld, Cintra Wilson, Chris Adrian, Carl Wilson. This is the nineteenth installment in a series of twenty posts announcing — in no particular order — which 100 stories will be collected in the Significant … Continue reading
IN THIS UPDATE: Annie Nocenti, Sheila Heti. 1) After the January 10th earthquake in Haiti, Annie Nocenti spent four months there making documentaries. This week, HiLobrow.com published the first in a series (titled “Gadou Gadou”) of ten reports by Nocenti. … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Joe Wenderoth, Jim Hanas, Jenny Offill, Jeff Turrentine, James Parker. This is the eighteenth installment in a series of twenty posts announcing — in no particular order — which 100 stories will be collected in the Significant … Continue reading
